Security in Windows Environments: 4 Stories
This four-chapter Tech Advisor includes detailed information on various security challenges, from changing your security weakness into strengths; securing your desktops with Group Policy; comparisons of some of the top endpoint solutions on the market; best practices in security policy management, and more.
SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor
SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor is a mature monitoring and alerting system that offers basic SNMP monitoring and add-on modules geared toward large networks. It’s full of nuggets for your performance and diagnostic needs.
Endpoint-Protection Products
Compare endpoint protection products from ESET, McAfee, Sophos, Symantec, and AVG to pick the right safeguard for your needs.
Types of Endpoint-Protection Products
Here's a quick review of how antivirus software, anti-rootkit-scanning tools, client firewalls, and email scanners beef up your security technology.
KBOX 1100 Systems Management Appliance
KACE Networks’ systems management appliance delivers a huge range of standard and optional features, from hardware and software inventory to patch management. We cover the highlights for you.
GOexchange
Our reviewer examines a preventative-maintenance tool that automates the discovery and repair of Exchange Information Store problems.
SteelEye Technology LifeKeeper Protection Suite for Windows
SteelEye’s clustering and disaster recovery solution, LifeKeeper Protection Suite for Windows, offers admirable support for both replicated and shared storage, easy configuration for both scenarios, and support for more complex failover scenarios.
Lantronix SecureLinx Spider
This scalable KVM-over-IP switch promises the ability to remotely manage geographically distributed IT equipment, but it comes up short in ease of use.
Astaro Security Gateway 220
The Astaro Security Gateway 220 appliance is an excellent choice for email encryption, Web filtering, firewall, VPN and other security features, in an easily configurable package.
Radmin 3.0
Microsoft Remote Desktop is fine for occasional use, but for heavy-duty user support, our reviewer much prefers Famatech's Radmin 3.0 remote-control utility is preferable. Replete with useful features, Radmin offers great performance and solid security.
BioPassword Enterprise Edition 3.2
BioPassword Enterprise Edition 3.2 improves network security by monitoring user biometrics: It senses how users type their passwords, then evaluates typing rhythm and cadence to make sure that only authorized users are using those passwords.
VPN Firewalls for SMBs
John Green tests and compares three VPN firewall appliances for small-to-midsized businesses. NETGEAR's ProSafe VPN Firewall 200, SonicWALL's TZ 180 Wireless, and ZyXEL's ZYWALL 5 UTM all offer stateful packet inspection and Web-based management.
NETIKUS.NET EventSentry 2.8
EventSentry 2.8 is an excellent event-log and system-health monitoring and consolidation tool that you should consider closely for your environment.
You'll have the opportunity to experience:
During over 6 hours of training you can join John Savill from your computer as he will walk you through the key components and capabilities of System Center 2012, what’s involved in using the components, and the benefit they can bring to your environment.
May 2013 - The NameTranslate object is useful when you need to translate Active Directory object names between different formats, but it's awkward to use from PowerShell. Here's a PowerShell script that eliminates the awkwardness.
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